on human/machine love in Margaret Rhee’s Love, Robot I stood alone on the beach looking out to sea. The sun was setting, sinking into the horizon, turning the waters a gleaming gold and leaving the sky dappled and purpling like a bruise. I felt tranquil—a rare feeling for me to encounter in a dream—and IContinue reading “Technologically Enmeshed”
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Exquisite Agony
The first time I remember feeling it, I was a child growing up in Minnesota. The end of winter in that still, gelid land was almost a religious experience. It overwhelmed me and sent me yearning for some kind of ultimate connection I could not name. To satisfy the yearning, I developed a ritual. TheContinue reading “Exquisite Agony”
Sensawunda
“Things are getting worse,” my director, Ryan, declares. It’s a hot, mid-summer day and I am lounging with a dozen other women on the floor of one of the old, empty houses on Governors Island. We’re participating in an artist’s residency for a devised theatre production called The Great Filter. The name derives from oneContinue reading “Sensawunda”
February
I can’t believe it’s still February. Time crawls by. I wonder if this is what Pope Gregory XIII thought when he plotted out these 28 endless days. He probably dipped his quill in the well and whispered, “Forgive me God, but I just can’t do this anymore,” and then consigned us, and all of history,Continue reading “February”
Laura Linart 